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verb

excoriate

to criticize someone severely

In a sentence

Six example sentences with excoriate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Editorial pages excoriated the mayor for approving a stadium while three libraries in the same district closed.

    Politics

  • Few reviews were kinder: one critic excoriated the sequel in a single sentence and moved on to the next film.

    Movies

  • Being excoriated at halftime for jogging back on defense did not stop the starters from doing it again.

    Basketball

  • The reviewer excoriated the novel over two full pages, then admitted in the last line that he had finished it in one sitting.

    Literature

  • Analysts excoriated the bank for hiding the losses in a footnote, and the shares fell by a fifth.

    Finance

  • The judge excoriated both lawyers for wasting the court's time with motions that repeated each other word for word.

    Law

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